I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.